The Pain Studies Lab is a research group and physical research space funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). It was founded and is directed by Dr. Diane Gromala, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Computational Technologies for Transforming Pain.

The diversity of our research work is reflected in our federal funding:

CIHR: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research

NIH: National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

NCEs: Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence

AGE-WELL

Kid’s Brain Health Network NCE (formerly NeuroDevNet)

NSERC: The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

NSF: National Science Foundation (U.S.)

SSRCH: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

CFI: Canada Foundation for Innovation

CRC: Canada’s Research Chairs

The Pain Studies Lab was named one of Google’s first Solve for X labs.

Google on Solve for X:
“Moonshots live in the gray area between audacious projects and pure science fiction; instead of mere 10% gains, they aim for 10x improvements. The combination of a huge problem, a radical solution, and the breakthrough technology that might just make that solution possible is the essence of a Moonshot.”

“Great Moonshot discussions require an innovative mindset – including a healthy disregard for the impossible – while still maintaining a level of practicality.”